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Kevins final letter 10 January 2006 Dear ***************, Although I have not received another letter from you, I though I'd start to
write, as I am have a lot to say. I am scheduled to be released on the
20th, so if you have not yet written me here, please send your next letter
to my home address. In case you have forgotten my contact information, it's
as follows; Kevin Walsh
5059 N 38th Place
Phoenix, Az 85018-1503
(602)956-0997
Please do not e-mail me just yet, as it will take me some time to
reestablish my internet access and my e-mail addresses. Most likely all my
accounts have been deleted, and I will have to start from scratch.
I have spoken to a Mexican-American inmate who works as a programs clerk to
ask about how the Mexican and Chicano inmates are organized. He said he had
never heard of the Mexican Mafia or the New Mexican Mafia, so apparently
they do not have much of a presence here. He said there is no formal
organization among the Mexican inmates. They just naturally stick together
and help each other out. My mother has asked me whether I intend to be politically active upon my
release and whether that will be allowed. I told her that I did intend to
remain politically active and that as long as I obey the law and the
conditions of my probation, I have as much right to express my opinions as
any other citizen. Of course that doesn't mean there won't be problems or
that the government will not further attempt to suppress my freedom of
speech. I have lost my right to vote. After my probation has ended, I will be able
to petition my trial judge Greggory Martin or his successor to restore that
right. That is five years down the road, however as my probation is for
five years. The loss of my right bear arms is permanent. Although I could petition the
judge to restore that right after probation ends, there is a permanent
disability under federal law because I was declared mentally ill and
dangerous to myself and others. Obviously, I will no longer be able to
provide informal security at political demonstrations with my prior
effectiveness. During my probation, I will not have the right to be secure from
unreasonable search and seizure. I must submit to search of my home, my
car, and my person upon demand of my probation officer for any reason or
for no reason. For this reason I should not carry or keep any item or
document that could compromise the security of the anti-war movement or
other progressive causes. I will be required to report any contact I have with law enforcement to the
Adult Probation Department. I am not required to talk to the police or any
other government agents, and I intend to continue to assert that right. I am forbidden during my probation to associate with criminals or people
with criminal records. It would therefore be prudent of me to sharply
curtail direct communication with Laro Nicol. I am sure I can still
communicate ideas with him through third parties. I am required during my probation to find and retain employment. I hope my
unstable work history will not continue and result in my going back to
prison. I am required during my probation to submit to mandatory psychoactive
treatment. This means I will likely have to take psychiatric medications. I
also have to see a psychiatrist from time to time, probably through Value
Options. If this psychiatrist thinks it warranted, he could have me civilly
committed to a mental hospital again, so even though I am "free" I could
still be locked up again. I fear that the power the psychiatrist will have
over me will be used as a leverage to keep me out of politics. If so I will
resist, even if it means going back to prison. I was 37 years old when I was arrested (21 June 2004) and I will be 39
years old tomorrow. This ordeal has already taken a sizable chunk out of my
life. I wish it had never happened, but I can also say I have learned about
prison life, jail life and life in a mental hospital. I have also learned
some things about the justice system. Much of this information I have already shared with you and others. There
are a few things I would like to address. There is a common belief that sexual assaults and homosexual activity in
general are common in prison. Since I have been here, I have never heard of
a single case of either. If it is going on people must be keeping quiet
about it. One person I asked about it told me that sexual activity among
inmates is much more common on sex offender yards than here on general
population yards where it is quite rare. Another common conception of prison is that there is a lot of extortion. To
that I say there isn't. The extortion of one individual to another
individual requiring an inmate to buy commissary for another or get his
family to put money in another inmates books seems to be rare. I have never
heard of this being done here. There is a form of extortion carried out
collectively by the Aryan Brotherhood. They require each white inmate to
give them one postage stamp per month. If an inmate is conducting some kind
of money making or stamp making enterprise, such as conducting a lottery or
selling goods or services, they require a share of the profit. In September
the Aryan Brotherhood conducted a lottery that they pressured each white
inmate to enter. When I stubbornly refused, there was some verbal
unpleasantness, involving an inmate named Riot, but ultimately there was no
violence directed against me. There is a common conception that there is a lot of bullying and
unpleasantness in prison. I have not found this to be the case. Generally
if you mind your own business and are polite and respectful toward other
people will not mess with you. Of all the inmates I have know here, only
two have been at all unpleasant to me. One is Riot, of whom I have already
written. The other is my cellmate Tom Murrey. Tom often yelled at me and made a full if I had to use the bathroom before
he wanted to get up in the morning. I put up with this for most of my
sentence, but I could not have it on my conscience that he would do this to
his next cellmate with out my trying to do something about it. I do not
like going to the Aryan Brotherhood to solve my problems, but it seemed the
only answer. I told them of his harassment of me, and they rebuked him. Tom bitterly accused me of snitching because of this, but only two days
earlier hehad occasion to report my conduct to the Aryan Brotherhood. We
were on the recreation field, and we had run out of drinking water. A black
inmate picked up the empty water jug and carried it to the gate. I told the
guard to let us out so we could refill the jug. He said he didn't have the
gate key and that we would have to wait for a guard who did. Tom then said
to me, "Don't help the opposite race." I replied, "All races need that
water." He said, "You can't help a nigger carry the water jug." I said
"That's bull shit!" He said "If you want to get your ass beat for this,
don't involve me." I said, "You're not involved." He said, "I'm your celly." I said, "So
what?" He then walked away and spoke with an Aryan Brotherhood inmate. A few
minutes later he came back and told me it was OK for me to help carry the
water jug. Other people to whom I spoke confirmed that the Aryan
Brotherhood was not so racist that its members would object to a white
inmate helping to carry a water jug with a black inmate. It was evidently
just my cellmates own racist fantasy. Another thing I dislike about Tom is that he is willfully ignorant and does
not know how to disagree without being disagreeable. When he says something
I dispute, I remain calm but stick to my position, while he loses his
temper, calls me names and even proposes solving the matter with physical
violence. Here are some of the positions he has put forward that I have
disputed, provoking his temper:
Puget Sound is a man-made body of water. It was evacuated in the early
1900s. The State of Washington directly borders the Yukon Territory. There is no
province of British Columbia between them. Oleander leaves take oxygen from the air. Homeless people have suffocated
from sleeping too close to oleanders. Hepatitis-C is a form of AIDS. Methamphetamine and heroin are different names for the same drug. Rich people who keep their money in banks get interest at a rate of several
percent PER DAY. Postage is prorated even within one ounce, so you can send a one-page
letter using a 23-cent stamp. The time difference between Arizona and Iraq is12 hours. ( I maintain that
it is 10 hours). He would at times accuse me of calling him a liar or of calling his
information a liar. Apparently he has difficulty with the concept that
there is a difference between telling a deliberate lie and being honestly
misinformed about something. If there is one person here I will not miss it
is Tom! I would like to thank the people who have stood behind me during this
ordeal, including you who tireless ensured that I was kept informed during
my confinement. I would like to thank the people in the anti-war movement
who were thinking of me and carrying on the fight against this unjust war.
I would particularly like to thank my mother, who visited me as often as
she could and wrote to me daily. She has suffered terrible of this and I
would like to try to make it up to her. Yours, Kevin Our federal government has gone insane officially now. ============================================================ Every farm animal to be RFIDed. This is no joke. See the USDA
website: http://animalid.aphis.usda.gov/nais/index.shtml and then on the upper
right hand side of the page click on the links for Draft Strategic
Plan and then Draft Program Standards. I suggest that everyone on this
list print them out and read them. For more info see http://www.stopanimalid.org for more info. Here are some of the things about the proposed program that bother me,
among others: - it will require anyone who owns any of the following types